Crossover from adiabatic to antiadiabatic quantum pumping with dissipation

ORAL

Abstract

Quantum pumping, in its different forms, is attracting attention from different fields, from fundamental quantum mechanics, to nanotechnology, to superconductivity. We investigate the crossover of quantum pumping from the adiabatic to the anti-adiabatic regime in the presence of dissipation, and find general and explicit analytical expressions for the pumped current in a minimal model describing a system with the topology of a ring forced by a periodic modulation of frequency $\omega$. The solution allows following in a transparent way the evolution of pumped DC current from much smaller to much larger $\omega$ values than the other relevant energy scale, the energy splitting introduced by the modulation. We find and characterize a temperature-dependent optimal value of the frequency for which the pumped current is maximal.

Authors

  • Giuseppe Ernesto Santoro

    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), SISSA and CNR/IOM

  • Franco Pellegrini

    SISSA and CNR/IOM

  • Carlotta Negri

    Laboratoire d'Ondes et Matiere d'Aquitaine, CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux

  • Fabio Pistolesi

    Laboratoire d'Ondes et Matiere d'Aquitaine, CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux

  • Nicola Manini

    ETSF and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Milano

  • Erio Tosatti

    SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, Trieste 34136, Italy, ICTP Trieste, SISSA and ICTP, Trieste, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), SISSA and CNR/IOM, SISSA \& CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS, ICTP, Trieste, Italy